This is only the 13th occasion in Test history that the same venue is being used for two Tests in the space of eight days but it is the first time in 11 years that is happening. Sharjah was the most recent case, where Australia and Pakistan played in 2002 and Harare has hosted consecutive Tests once before, in 1999 against Sri Lanka.

Originally Posted by BANFAN
If this news is true, do you think it's going to be good for us that we had some practice and can handle the batting better than 1st test? Or do u expect almost similar performance?

I think In 2nd test we will have better performance. But I dont think that same wicket will do anything good for us. Rather same wicket will panic our boys.
These Zimbow's are really cunning. They already have disgusted our players by poor fascility now they are trying to make our team panic by using same wicket?

Both team gonna have to play on the same pitch. Yeah, they are more familiar with it than we are, because it's their home, but we had enough familiarity with it during first test. In fact, first innings should have been enough.

No more excuses. You get the result like you play. They need to learn to take responsibility.

Originally Posted by Rubu
Both team gonna have to play on the same pitch. Yeah, they are more familiar with it than we are, because it's their home, but we had enough familiarity with it during first test. In fact, first innings should have been enough.

No more excuses. You get the result like you play. They need to learn to take responsibility.

The possible positive side is:
If ZIM strategy (using the same venue and pitch) backfire we win, it will be indeed a sweet revenge with double the sweet in the revenge.

On the other hand likely negative side is:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein quotes. So we may end up with similar result. So double the humiliation.